Some designers recommend looking up when strolling out and about. There’s a lot of groovy and inspirational design details up and above that are unseen at eye-level. As a garden designer I would also like to propose looking down. The different hardscaping going on out there is rather fascinating. Once you start looking, you can’t stop! I would say at least that this is very much the case in southern Europe. On my recent trip to Alicante in Spain, I came across the hardscaping outlooks seen in the collage below. They really are very good with that mosaic and tiling …
